The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-10-13
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The Views of Our Contemporaries on
Passing Public Events and Que stiOns
CT Interest.
The Hillsboro Recorder advocates max
ing the carrying of concealed weapons a
felony. 1t complains that under the pres
ent law parties convicted under the statute
are generally discharged upon payment of
costs.
If the next General Assembly would
pay Justices of the Peace reasonable fees,
then we will have good men in office, and
the Governor and Clerks of Courts would
not be so much bothered about getting
competent men to qualify as Justice of the
Peace Hillsboro Recorder.
The cry of some Of the papers is-''edu-
cate the girls Since 1865, the Southern
girls have had all the advantage over the
boys, and, as a consequence they are much
better educated. 1t is time now to edu-
cate the boys unless the women are to rule
all around Wilmington Star.
That old-fashioned style of punishment,
whipping, was administered in Delaware
a week or so ago to eleven criminals. In
spite of seutimentalists, the cat nine
tails would bear introduction into other
States, where the dread of it might help
to neutralize the temptation to spend
winter in JAIL well housed, fed and clad.
i Websters Weekly
Repeal the Internal Revenue laws, and
the Democratic party in North Carolina
and Virginia has lease for twenty years
on power and patronage; refuse to do so,
the world, the flesh and the devil cannot
keep it from being beaten in these two
States in the next Presidential election.
-. The party which proposes in dead
earnest TO abolish the Internal Revenue,
root and branch will carry North Carolina
next Fall. We are willing to risk our
reputation for prophesy on that predic-
ton - Webster's Weekly.
stock in the fight of the Mugwumps against
Senator Colquitt. 1t says that there isn't
a Protectionist in Georgia that can beat
him for any Office in the gift of the people.
1t goes further than this and says that
''there isn't district in the State from
which an avowed Protectionist could be
elected to Congress" that mine tenths of
the Democrats of Georgia are tariff re-
formers" and that IF from the few who
advocate protection for reasons personal
to themselves" there would not remain
enough to form respectable escort for
Mr. Samuel j. Randall from the cars to
his hotel, when he goes to Atlanta to open
the Piedmont Fair
What sort of platform ought the Demo
cratic party adopt next year? There is
some diversity of opinion. All do not
agree on the internal revenue. There are
many shades of opinion on the tariff,
There are some mutterings Oh the county
government question. The workingmen
and Knights of Labor and Prohibitionists
fancy they have cause for complaint, and
are either setting up for themselves or
joining the Republicans. The platform
ought to be drawn in all honesty and fair
ness, and then some men nominated whose
character and career are the embodiment
of the principles set forth in the platform.
We are always too hasty about this matter
anyhow. The platform ought to be set
tied first, before any nominations = Dur
ham Tobacco Plant.
There is something present, tangible,
terrible, offensive in the Internal Revenue
system. 1t comes home TO every indi-
vidual; it invades all premises; it prizes into
all business; it lays its hand on every en-
terprise; it thrusts that hand into every
pocket: it walks abroad as the familiar
friend, and discloses itself as the treach-
erous informer; and when its disguise is
thrown off, its vaunts itself as the insolent
bully and disports itself as the hateful ty-
rant.
The system is not American; it is not
tolerable 1t does not belong to the days
of peace and liberty. 1t bears upon it the
smell Of carnage and the hateful brutalism
Of conquest. 1t throws the chain of slavery
| upon the free man, and bows in humilia
| ton the head of him whose eye should
never blench before an equal. ....,
| But to ogr leaders we would say, that they
owe it to themselves, the party and the
people to remove this last, formidable and
| only obstacle to the onward triumpha
; MARCH of the Democratic party. Doing
this, they will I.a.e that party invinciblf
and permanent; otherwise the hopes Of the
| opposition are not so idle as we think they
i Asheville Citizen.
WHAT A CLOSE FRIENp OF MIN.
ISTER JARVIS SAYS.
[Greenvilie Standard
| in some of the State papers the belief i
expressed that Minister Jarvis will at al
early day resign his place and return +
North Carolina. This onjecture was mad
doubtless because of our eX-Governors re
cent illness, and because, too, Of the ~
| l., boi i, fol hn oY6 of ai,,c